Determinator: She didn’t stop trying to fly even though she kept face-planting, and after a week of training went from barely able to take off to being ahead of her age level in flight ability. All she needed was a good teacher.

Happily Adopted: Subverted at first, Scootaloo and Sandy argue a lot (though Sandy did care about her and want what she thought was best for Scootaloo and her baby), but after Lightning Blitz is born and Sandy realizes how much her actions hurt Scootaloo, their relationship improved greatly.

Contrast their interactions in the earlier strips of the comic (like here, here, here and here) and their interactions after “The Birthing” and you’ll see what I mean

Sandy Hooves

An Earth Pony mare and Scootaloo's foster mother and legal guardian, Sandy is looking after Scootaloo because the pegasus filly's mother was a friend of hers, and she promised her that Scootaloo would go to a good home.

Parental Substitute: Towards Scootaloo. She promised Scootaloo's mom, a dear friend of hers, that the filly would go to a good home, as her friend was dying of cancer, and ended up taking Scootaloo in herself. Unfortunately, Scootaloo missed her mother dearly, and often got into trouble of various sorts, unconsciously hoping that her mom would show up if she was dragged home, causing her and Sandy to become a big antagonistic towards one another, and Sandy putting Scoot's baby up for adoption made it worse, since Scootaloo wanted to keep it.

Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Sandy gets along just fine with unicorns, but their magic, on the other hand, she has a phobia of (as seen here). This strip implies that her magic issues at least partly stem from her frustration over the fact that there's no time travel spell that she can use to save the life of Scootaloo's mother, Firefly.

Easily Forgiven: Scootaloo forgives them pretty easily. Subverted with Sandy though, how makes it ‘’very’’ clear that she will ‘’not’’ tolerate them emotionally harming another mother like they did Scoots.

Happily Married: While they are quite possibly the two characters most hated by the comic’s fandom, and were absolutelyHORRIBLE to Scootaloo, they honestly seem to love each other (as seen here, though subtly).

Hoist by His Own Petard: Pheonix eventually traps him with his own testimony. Basically, he claimed that he didn’t hear anything but the gunshot, forgetting that Scootaloo had Lightning Blitz with her at the time, and since he was “supposedly” looking for them at the time, he should have moved towards them, but didn’t, and since he heard the shot, he should have heard the baby crying.

Not So Different: The Dirty Coward entry above says this, as Scootaloo is not entirely blameless in becoming pregnant, but also points out that she took responsibility for it and is trying to make the best of it, while he is just being a cowardlyJerkass by abandoning her like that.

Which, according to Sandy, shouldn't be the case as she gave a birthday card to Scootaloo one month ago yet was murdered by Pokey Peirce three months ago. Probably a side effect of the bleeding from when Discord Whoove visit the Motherly Scootaloo universe.

Shady Daze

Rain Catcher's one remaining friend from before word of Scootaloo's pregnancy got out (incidentally, he was the first of their group to find out about it).

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